This dissertation traces the development, growth, and eventual fall of a white Creole intellectual and literary community in New Orleans, beginning in the 1820s and continuing for a century thereafter. In histories and novels, poetry and prose, the...

B&W photo, 1960s. Louisiana Purchase Memorial at Hodges Gardens. Many, Louisiana. Written on photo: Natchitoches, the oldest town in the Louisiana Purchase; New Orleans, the largest port; Baton Rouge, the capitol; and Hodges Gardens, 4,700-acre...

For two hundred years the history of the Battle of New Orleans has suffered from the neglected state of the historiography on the War of 1812 and the static state of the Battle's orthodox narrative. This dissertation identifies and deconstructs the...

Copies of two census records: one taken in 1803 for the City of New Orleans and the other taken in 1806 for the Territory of Orleans. Both show the number of whites, free people of color, and slaves in each section of the city. The census of 1803...